“I had stepped out onto the back porch, and as soon as I stepped out, it just smelled so good,” says Donna Doutt, who lives in Beaver, a river valley community less than 3 km upstream from a world-scale chemical plant that Shell Pennsylvania Chemicals intends to start up later this year. “I thought it was one of my neighbors cooking something.”
by Rick Mullin | May 09, 2022
The CO2 is subsequently used for enhanced oil recovery. 4 DuPont 2021 chemical sales: $16.7 billion CEO Ed Breen's campaign to transform DuPont isn't quite finished. In its second large acquisition in electronics, the company is buying Rogers, which makes materials such as laminates for printed circuit boards, for $5.2 billion.
by Alexander H. Tullo | May 09, 2022
The ACS Board of Directors has approved a $500,000 contribution to NASEM’s Safe Passage Fund, which will be prioritized for chemical scientists. In place of a stand-alone effort to support chemical scientists in Ukraine, this approach leverages the relationships and infrastructure already established for the Safe Passage Fund. Vaughan Turekian, executive director of the NASEM Policy and Global Affairs Division, confirmed that having ACS funds focused first on chemical scientists would not be a problem. ACS will also establish a clearinghouse within the ACS International Center website to connect displaced Ukrainian chemical scientists with possible landing spots in the US.
by Dorothy J. Phillips, director-at-large | April 30, 2022
The accident was investigated by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), which found that lessons from two previous but less severe incidents could have helped prevent the 2010 explosion had they been formally documented and communicated. The CSB concluded that “entities looking to improve safety should encourage the reporting of such incidents, even when injuries or damage do not result, as accidents and near-miss reports indicate critical areas where safety controls may be needed.”
by Ariana Remmel | April 26, 2022
She was a 2021 International Women’s Media Foundation Next Gen Safety Trainer fellow, a 2020 awardee of the inaugural World Press Photo Foundation’s Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative and a 2016 visiting Knight Fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Her writing and photography have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Newsweek, ProPublica, HuffPost, Nieman Reports, ESPN Magazine, Canon Europe Pro, and the Black Scholar, among many others. She is on the board of stock photo co-op Stocksy United, serves as secretary of the National Press Photographers Association Board, and is a cofounder of Authority Collective—an organization dedicated to establishing equity in visual media. Tyler Santora Tyler Santora is the health and science editor at Fatherly and a freelance science journalist based out of Colorado.
April 08, 2022
This year, the WCC celebrates its 95th anniversary, providing an excellent opportunity to recognize the perseverance and dedication of women who positively impact the chemical enterprise. I dedicate this article to the chemists whose stories I tell here and to all women whose work furthers scientific knowledge in chemistry.
by Amy M. Balija, chair, ACS Committee on Women Chemists | March 27, 2022
The organization oversees shipping safety and security and is responsible for preventing water and air pollution from ships. “Mobile phones, iPads, grains for breakfast cereal, iron ore, crude oil, bananas, and avocados. All of it crosses the oceans by ship.” Raw materials and manufactured products cross the oceans every day in enormous vessels, including bulk cargo carriers, tankers, and container ships.
by Mitch Jacoby | February 27, 2022